“I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.” — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony… — Ann McLane Kuster Copy Share Image
“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts. — Nina Hagen Copy Share Image
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I thought Indians built fires with fiction." … "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained.… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them. — Rick Baker Copy Share Image
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I read because imagination was the only thing that elevated me beyond my own reality. To look at my world as my… — Katie Ray Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
How could I have kept out this incredible fiction? That's when it all started for me. I was, and still am, a… — Arjen Anthony Lucassen Copy Share Image
You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
“It's from the newspapers that people I know - relatives and co-workers - have got the idea that crosswords are a prophylactic… — Alan Connor Copy Share Image
Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or and people said: "Wait a minute, he's actually smart and he knows what he's doing!" I… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
“Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?” — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.” — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again...” — Jodi LaPalm Copy Share Image
Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.” — Miriam Allen de Ford Copy Share Image
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
